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It was such a departure for what anybody was doing
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Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters

It was such a departurefor what anybody was doing

It was such a departure
for what anybody was doing

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It was such a departure for what anybody was doing.
Duration
5 seconds
Views
22
Timestamp in Movie
00:55:08
Uploaded
Apr 29, 2025
Genres
documentary
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Movie Summary

A feature length documentary about Mike Mignola and the creation of his comic book universe centered around Hellboy.
Nothing looked like that. Nothing had a story like that. - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters 00:04
Nothing looked like that. Nothing had a story like that.
I'm so excited. I just made water in my pantaloons. - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters 00:04
I'm so excited. I just made water in my pantaloons.
Despite his genius, or perhaps even because of it, - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters 00:07
Despite his genius, or perhaps even because of it,
Crowd murmur - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters 00:06
Crowd murmur
Reading Hellboy, I felt that there's a power - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters 00:24
Reading Hellboy, I felt that there's a power
As a kid, I was the only guy I knew who liked what I liked and did what I did. - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters 00:05
As a kid, I was the only guy I knew who liked what I liked a...
I just read books and watched old movies, and I was an artist. - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters 00:04
I just read books and watched old movies, and I was an artis...
Within a fandom like this, a lot of misfits can find their people. - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters 00:07
Within a fandom like this, a lot of misfits can find their p...
The heroes that Mike Mignola has created are flawed misfits. - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters 00:06
The heroes that Mike Mignola has created are flawed misfits.
They have insecurities about their looks, their powers. - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters 00:05
They have insecurities about their looks, their powers.
There's a lot of internal conflict in these characters that he's created, - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters 00:10
There's a lot of internal conflict in these characters ...
The way that they're all trying to navigate - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters 00:05
The way that they're all trying to navigate
When I was a teenager, - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters 00:05
When I was a teenager,
I think a lot of misfits feel that way too, of, - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters 00:08
I think a lot of misfits feel that way too, of,
I can't escape this world, so can't there be a place for me?" - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters 00:11
I can't escape this world, so can't there be a pla...
The idea of the hero as monster - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters 00:15
The idea of the hero as monster
That notion of the hero as monster falls away - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters 00:22
That notion of the hero as monster falls away
And Mignola rediscovered those pieces of the superhero narrative - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters 00:09
And Mignola rediscovered those pieces of the superhero narra...
The way he treats monsters, specifically Hellboy, - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters 00:07
The way he treats monsters, specifically Hellboy,
He's an immigrant from Hell, came to Earth. - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters 00:05
He's an immigrant from Hell, came to Earth.